Can you guess what day this is? You are right! It is Meals of the Week Day! The day when I gather together and share with you all the meals that I have cooked or eaten over the past week. You have all said that you enjoy these posts, and I actually find this very helpful mys … | Continue reading
Cherry Topped Fairy Cakes. How can you not fall in love with something called a Fairy Cake? And when they are topped with glace cherries, so much the more!A fairy cake is the name given to small buttery cakes in the UK. They are generally much smaller than a cup cake and rathe … | Continue reading
I am a huge fan of cornbread of any kind! There is something just very moreish to me about the slight crunch that cornmeal adds to any kind of bread you add it to. It doesn't matter to me if it is in a muffin, pancake, a loaf, or as a cake.I love it all. Honey is something tha … | Continue reading
On Wednesday nights I usually go out to supper with my father and his friends, so I don't actually cook much around here. I do have lunch however, and I try to keep that light. Today I fancied a salad and so I decided to small batch my favorite Greek Salad. I can enjoy one serv … | Continue reading
My sister and I were out and about the other day and she said to me, "Have you tried the TikTok Cinnamon Roll Hack?" I said that no, I hadn't. She said to me that they were fabulously delicious and I really needed to.She had made them last week for she and Dan to snack on whi … | Continue reading
I had the family over for Sunday supper this week. We had grilled chicken and a variety of salads along with some garlic bread sticks and roasted asparagus. My sister brought a sugar free apple pie for dessert. It was just nice to get together here at my place as a family. Us … | Continue reading
We are coming into BBQ Grilling season now. I don't know about you, but I love food cooked outdoors on the grill. Hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken. I love it all.A lot of people can a bit afraid to cook chicken on the BBQ. I think the fear of not cooking it through all the w … | Continue reading
Here I am with another Sunday Meals of the Week post. This is the day I generally share with you all of the main meals that I have cooked for myself in the previous week. A delicious recap of how I have been feeding myself.I determined when I moved into my own place that I as … | Continue reading
I am a huge fan of the blondie style of cookie bar. They are right up there with brownies in my estimation! Both have the moreish chewy texture that we all love, but blondies have a really delicious caramel/toffee flavor!It is the brown sugar in blondies that give them that l … | Continue reading
Have I told you that the potato is my favorite vegetable? I have? Well, I am telling you again. I have never met a potato yet that I don't love. A day without a potato in it is a day that is missing something great as far as I am concerned.I love them any which way that I can … | Continue reading
One of my all-time favorite cakes has been the Classic Pound Cake. Simple and yet delicious. Not fancy, there is no pretense there. Its pretty basic, most of the classics are.Easy to make and even easier to eat. If you have a pound cake in the larder, you have the makings of s … | Continue reading
I love LOVE French Toast. Its not really something that my mother ever made when we were growing up. She wasn't into pancakes or French Toast, but it was something my own children really loved.I loved it too, as it was a fabulously tasty way to use up stale bread. Its even bett … | Continue reading
If your family are fans of meatloaf and of macaroni and cheese, then they are going to absolutely fall in love with this fabulously tasty casserole recipe. Macaroni and Cheese Meatloaf Casserole combines these two loves in the most delicious way!First of all you have a wonderfu … | Continue reading
Easy Stuffed Cheesy Bread is a quick and easy take on a popular pizzeria bread. Something delicious that would be perfectly at home with your BBQ, or your salads or your soups.What you have here is a layer of molten ooey gooey cheese, stuffed between two layers of bread dough, w … | Continue reading
Well, its Sunday and you know what that means. A recap of all the meals I cooked or ate over the previous week. My Meals of the Week. I am really enjoying gathering these meals together each week. It helps me to plan my meals for the week ahead and helps me to keep a note of e … | Continue reading
If you are like me, you will be a fan of quick and easy meals. Meals that don't really require a lot of effort. If it is a meal that basically cooks itself with minimal effort on your part, so much the better!I can have days where I know I am going to be too busy to really cook … | Continue reading
One thing which I really came to love during my years living in the UK was a good Indian curry. A really good curry is something to be enjoyed and the top of the range has to be a Chicken curry. Tender pieces of chicken, infused with home ground and tempered spices, in a lush r … | Continue reading
Dandelion Honey: A Sweet and Nutritious Alternative to Traditional Honey Can you remember when you were a child and would pick dandelion bouquets for your mom? I used to be so proud of those bouquets, and my mother, bless her heart, would keep them for at least a day in a jar o … | Continue reading
I wanted something quick, simple and easy to make for my dinner today and so I decided to try a pasta dish that I had been wanting to try for a very long time.Cacio e pepe is a traditional Italian pasta dish that has gained popularity all over the world in recent years. The name … | Continue reading
I spied this steak dinner for one recipe over on Food 52 a week or so ago and was immediately intrigued. A steak dinner for one in five minutes? I had to try it.Not only was it quick and easy to execute, but the sauce that was created to serve with it sounded amazing. I do en … | Continue reading
I have never made any secret of it, the potato is quite simply my favorite vegetable. I love potatoes in any way, shape or form. If asked to, I could give up chocolate, but I could not ever give up the humble potato.One of the reasons I love them so much is because they are so … | Continue reading
This week for my Meals of the Week, I challenged myself to forgo going to the shops and eat entirely from out of my store-cupboard, freezer and refrigerator. I am lucky in that I have a pretty healthy store-cupboard! So much so that if I don't really start to using some of … | Continue reading
This recipe I am sharing with you today for a Crunchy Topped Banana Cake comes from a recipe book I have on my Kindle, entitled Everyday Cake, by Polina Chesnakova. It is a book which contains 45 simple recipes for layer, Bundt, loaf and sheet cakes.I found myself with some ba … | Continue reading
Burgers are not something that I eat very often. I find them to be overly filling and to be honest, I am not all that found of ground beef. I did have some in the freezer however that I had broken into 1/4 pound lots.As this is my cooking from food storage week, today I decided … | Continue reading
On Wednesday nights, I usually go out to supper with my father and a few of his friends. Sometimes my sister joins us. We just go to a local eatery down the road from where I live. The food is hit and miss, but I don't go for the food, I go for the company.Its just nice to be ab … | Continue reading
Welcome to day three of my week's store cupboard challenge. I have challenged myself this week to use only what I have in the house, including my refrigerator, freezer, and cupboards.I have found myself buying loads of things that I don't need and then not getting them used up a … | Continue reading
Welcome to day two of my challenge to cook meals for myself only using what I already have in the house. I have challenged myself this week to only cook from my refrigerator, freezer, larder, without having to go to the chops for any ingredients at all.Maybe you are like me. Yo … | Continue reading
Stuffed Pork Roast with Browned Potatoes. Here I am on the first day of my challenge to cook meals for myself only using what I have in my home. This week I have challenged myself to stay away from the shops and only cook and feed myself with what I already have in my home/la … | Continue reading
Here I am again with another Meals of the Week post, this one for the first week of May. Temperatures were not overly warm this week, so I am still enjoying a bit of comfort food. A few days were absolutely frigid actually. That is what this time of year is like. Very transit … | Continue reading
Good Housekeeping magazine used to have a section where the readers could write in and ask them to repost a recipe from a past issue that the reader enjoyed and perhaps had misplaced. This is one of those recipes, carefully clipped from the April 1993 issue of Good Housekeeping … | Continue reading
Oh, I had big plans for celebrating this weekend's Coronation of King Charles III. I was going to do this and I was going to do that. I first was enthused by the Coronation Quiche. But then everyone was doing it.I did not want to do what everyone else was doing. So I gave up … | Continue reading
Pork Medallions with Creamy Dijon Sauce make a wonderful midweek supper. Delicious and tender pieces of pork in a rich and creamy sauce. Its quick and easy to make, simple enough for every day and yet elegant enough for a special occasion! Even a date night if that's on the ca … | Continue reading
I have been interested in food and cooking for all of my life. When I was a child my mother would give me her old magazines and I would clip recipes from out of them. My mother was not someone who tolerated little hands messing up her kitchen, so I never really got to try any o … | Continue reading
Its a horrible day out there today. The wind is blowing and the rain is falling. Its not fit for man nor beast. Its probably one of the few last days where I will feel comfortable putting my oven on and so I took advantage of that to make myself a Cranberry Baked Ham Steak din … | Continue reading
Most Sundays I go to my sister's home for Sunday Dinner. Sometimes it's a roast beef dinner, other's it might be chicken or even pork. Whatever the main course, it is a wonderful opportunity for us to get together as a family and break some bread together.This week I decided to … | Continue reading
Something which I have started doing here in The English Kitchen over this past month is sharing my Meals of the Week with you at the beginning of every week. I share all of the main meals that I have cooked or shared with family over the previous week, along with links to recip … | Continue reading
It won't be very long now before the Coronation of King Charles. Many people all over the world will be taking the opportunity to celebrate the occasion in one way or another. It could be by having a street party, a special breakfast a luncheon or a tea party. Personally I o … | Continue reading
Macaroni Cheese & Tomato Bake is a recipe that I love. I had not made it in a very long while, mostly because it made so much. This week I decided to downsize it to half the amount so that I could enjoy it reasonably.My daughter Eileen and her husband make this very often. Its a … | Continue reading
I was a grown up adult before I ever tasted a waffle. They just were not something my mother ever cooked for us, although she did have a waffle iron attachment to her griddle. I imagine she probably found them quite fiddly.She hardly ever cooked us pancakes either. Once a yea … | Continue reading
I was in the grocery store and spied a couple of strip loin steaks marked down by 50 % because this was their sell by date. How could I resist. I had to pick them up. My mouth was watering. A good steak, cooked properly, is really high on my list of the foods that I love!I had … | Continue reading
I had the family over for supper at the weekend and I baked a quantity of potatoes for us to have with our dinner. I always like to bake extra's because you never know what you are going to find on the inside of a potato.Sometimes they will be perfectly find and sometimes they … | Continue reading
This recipe which I am sharing today is something I actually cooked prior to becoming sick. I am only just getting around to posting it now. Sorry about that! I hope you won't hold it against me! (I know you won't.)It is a recipe that I had pinned from Eating Well 101. I ha … | Continue reading
Another Sunday, another Meals of the week post. The post where I catch you up with all of the things which I have cooked for myself and my family over the previous week. I may live on my own, but as you can see I eat very well.Things were a bit simpler this week as we have all … | Continue reading
The recipe I am sharing with you today is for a delicious snacking cake that I have been baking for my family for many, many years. It boasts a simple plain cake bottom with a tender crumb and a baked on coconut streusel topping.Its called Dandy Candy Cake and I suspect it gets … | Continue reading
When I go to the shops I like to snoop around the international section. You never know what you are going to find. I am always spying different things. Food items of curiosity.For me the best part of any holiday is exploring the food, so perusing the international food secti … | Continue reading
I don't know about you, but for myself, with these Spring days that are warming up and the gorgeous sunshine we have been enjoying of late, I find myself craving salads. I adore salads. They are one of my absolute favorite things to make and to eat, and this is the time of … | Continue reading
One of the most iconic and popular dishes in the UK has to be Classic Bangers & Mash. Its right up there with Fish & Chips and Curry and Rice. And let's not forget, Sunday lunch Roast Beef.And really, in my opinion, the British have some of the best sausages in the world. I t … | Continue reading
I felt a bit better today and so thought I would cook myself some pasta. I had pinned this pink pasta sauce a few weeks back that I found on a site called The Dinner Bite. It looked very simple and effortless. It also uses store cupboard ingredients. I haven't been out shoppin … | Continue reading